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"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."
"Great Britain revolutionized parts of their regulatory process by actually bringing the people who were going to be regulated to the table and suddenly found that they could solve the problems at a lot lower cost by, again, going back to the thing that tends to be most uninteresting, particularly in cable news, and looking at the actual process."
"Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean."
"Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!"
"The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable."
"When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected."
"Stay a little and news will find you."
"In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie."
"One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news."
"Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news."
"Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow."
"I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet."
"The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders."
"If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them."
"The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition."
"A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time."
"I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation."
"And also, folks live in a regular world, so when they come to our show [Aladdin], we want to take that away from them for a little bit. Just give them two hours to make up for the train that didn't come on time or the terrible news you get from TV."
"A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it."
"Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on."
